capu
\ˈka.pu\
The verdict
“capu” is uncommon French (frequency #80,023 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,023
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tête.
Corpus desk
Index FR-capu · capu · French
capu · rank #80,023 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,023
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH capitation
Nearest frequency peer: capitation (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « capu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cambriolée
cambriolée
19,981 corpus weight
- canetons
canetons
19,980 corpus weight
- capitation
capitation
19,979 corpus weight
- capu
capu
19,978 corpus weight
- caquet
caquet
19,977 corpus weight
- carbonées
carbonées
19,976 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « capu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈka.pu\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #80,023 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « capu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
capu is uncommon French at frequency #80,023 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈka.pu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tête.".
No misspelling variants are generated for capu in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is capu, spelled C-A-P-U.
Definition
- 1Tête.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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